When we look at the human history, we see that human beings have always been migration to somewhere. Mostly, mobility related with war, climate and economy. The period that we live in is much more witnessing the mobility of the human beings. Due to war and hard economic conditions people start to flee from their country and search for better lifes.
Soon after the war started in Syria at 2011 refugees began to cross the border into Turkey. I started to photograph them staying in tents around my city, Urfa, before Turkey started to build camps for them. In 2014 Daesh attacked Yazidi Kurds in Sengal in Iraq. Waves of Yazidi escaped Daesh by entering Turkey. For Yazidis this was a profound tragedy as historically they have suffered massacres before that were based on religious differences.
Yazidis stayed for a long time in Turkey close to the Irak/Kurdistan border. Most of them didn’t want to go back to Iraqi Kurdistan; they were too scared that they might suffer the same massacre again. Most of them wanted to pass through Turkey to Europe later.
In 2014 Daesh attacked Kurdish city of Kobani in Syria. Waves of thousands of people again took flight from Daesh entering Turkey from the Syrian/Turkish border. Waves of people were killed by Daesh during this time.

Refugees from Kobani stayed for a few months close to the border waiting for the war to finish in Kobani. The Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Unit) won the war against Daesh so some refugees whose homes had not been destroyed in the war came back to Kobani.
In 2015 the YPG attacked Tell Abyad. This city had been under the control of Daesh for about 2 years when YPG tried to take city. Around 5,000-6,000 people escaped from Tell Abyad and entered Turkey from the border. Some of these refugees went back when YPG got control of Tell Abyad but some of them continued to live in camps in Turkey.
In 2015 refugees started to move to Europe. It was first mostly Syrians that tried to go Europe but then people from a lot of other countries - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tunisia, Iraq - also tried to go.
I went to the Iran/Turkey border and photographed refugees passing the border illegally. Then I started to move with the refugees. First on Kos island in Greece, than Macedonia ( FYROM - the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Serbia and Croatia.
It was October 2015 but the weather was already bad. I saw a lot of old and child refugees who were ill.